Sample Questions

East West University

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Fall 2015
CSE 477, Data Mining

Introduction
1. What is Data Mining? Briefly describe the KDD process.
2. What is frequent pattern? Give some examples of frequent patterns.
3. Give examples of single-dimensional association rule and single-dimensional
association rule. For and association rule A  B, define support and confidence
in terms of probability.
4. What is classification? What are the ways of representing classification model?
5. Define: Neural Network, Regression analysis, Clustering
6. What is outlier? Why outlier analysis is important?
7. What makes a pattern interesting?
8. Can a data mining system generate all of the interesting patterns?
9. Can the system generate only the interesting ones?
10. Distinguish ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ measures of interestingness with
example.
11. “Data Mining is a multi-disciplinary field”-Explain.
12. What is machine learning? What are the learning processes of machine
learning?
13. What is IR? How it differs from information retrieval in databases?

Getting to Know Your Data

1. What are the various types of attributes needed to study in data mining process?
Define, mention characteristics and give examples of each type.
2. Suppose that the data for analysis includes the attribute age. The age values for
the data tuples are (in increasing order) 13, 15, 16, 16, 19, 20, 20, 21, 22, 22, 25,
25, 25, 25, 30, 33, 33, 35, 35, 35, 35, 36, 40, 45, 46, 52, 70.
a) What is the mean of the data? What is the median?
b) What is the mode of the data? Comment on the data’s modality
(i.e.,bimodal, trimodal, etc.).
c) What is the midrange of the data?
3. Define the terms: i) Trimmed Mean ii) Interquartile Range
4. What are the components of five-number summary of the data?